Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

Student activist Dai Lin to receive posthumous honor

Taipei Times

Student activist Dai Lin (林冠華) is to be posthumously commemorated in the “Taiwanese Pantheon (台灣神)” in a park owned by the Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation, foundation spokesperson Liau Kian-tshiau (廖建超) said yesterday.

Sub comments reveal below-par Ma

Taipei Times Editorial

The perception of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as a whiny leader who lacks guts in owning up to his political actions and who constantly makes excuses for his less-than-stellar performance appears to have been bolstered in the public’s eyes by remarks he made on Sunday.

Ma snipes at DPP’s Tsai on ‘status quo’

Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou, left, shakes hands with former US deputy secretary of state James Steinberg at the opening of the Taiwan-US-Japan Trilateral Security Dialogue in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday cast doubt on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) proposal to maintain the cross-strait “status quo” if elected, urging the DPP chairperson to offer a clear definition of what she means by “status quo.”

KMT’s futile obsession with history

Taipei Times Editorial

In an interview with Japanese magazine Voice, former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) said that Taiwan did not fight in the Second Sino-Japanese War, because at that time Taiwan was part of Japanese territory, and Taiwanese were fighting for their mother country — Japan. The statement was strongly condemned by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), with the Presidential Office demanding an apology and KMT legislators planning to amend the law to deprive Lee of his privileges as a former president.

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